Sweets aka "Bird´s Nests"
Cooking with kids is fun.These small sweet things are nothing much to look at but easy for kids to make. Perhpaps they will need some help measuring up the ingredients.
INGREDIENTS:
* 100 g margarine
* 1 dl (100 ml) sugar
* 2 tablespoons cacao powder
* 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
* 4 tablespoons golden syrup
* 1 ½ dl (150 ml) coconut flakes
* 3 dl (300 ml) corn flakes
* (or Kellogs Special K. Flakes)
METHOD:
1. Melt the margarine, add sugar, cacao powder, vanilla and syrup.
2. Bring to the boil and simmer for 3 minutes.
3. Remove from the heat, add the coconut flakes and cornflakes.
4. Stir gently until the cornflakes are well coated.
5. Spoon pieces of the mixture onto parchment paper (or into muffin cups).
6. Refrigerate for about 10 - 15 minutes, then enjoy.
"When one teaches, two learn" (quote: Robert Heinlein 1907-1988)
A young boy at my school once gave me this recipe. He called them "Fågelbon" (Bird´s nests). I suppose he was thinking of magpies´ nests. A magpie is a European long-tailed, black and white, noisy bird in the crow family. Its distinctive nest is built in a tree. It is cup-shaped and roofed by a dome of twigs.
10 comments:
Hi lovely cake, Im also blogging on recipes. You might want to see what's cooking on http://cook-italian-way.blogspot.com/
thanks, Mary
Hi Mary, Thanks for visiting. I left a comment on one of your blogs.
Karin thanks for visiting my blog earlier. Would you like we link from each others blog?
Let me know.
You are so right, these are so easy to make. I think I will make some and give them to my friends children. They would love it.
Hope you are fine.
I´m fine Cynthia ...waiting for summer ... still too cold, though. I don´t know how old your friend´s children are.. perhaps you ought to give them the recipe and let them make them on their own.
Karin, this recipe is really good! I bet my sister is gonna love it. Tks for sharing!
Yes Patricia, perfect for children to make. Using "Kellogg's Special K Low Carb Protein Plus cereal", instead of ordinary corn flakes makes them somewhat more nutritious.
You are linked too. Thaaankkkkksss alot. Mary
Karin, this reminds me of a childhood treat my mum used to make for me. The recipe is similar but she uses honey instead of golden syrup, omits the cocoa, adds chopped roasted peanuts, then tops it off with a small piece of candied cherry.
Nora B: Lovely. I think you can put in dried fruits too. Somewhere I got a similar recipe with nuts or almonds, sunflower seeds and raisins. I´ll look for it and post it some time in the future. The candied cherry your mother used made them look nicer, I´m sure.
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